Robert Pattinson Australia

PRINT INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks Good Time & Disguises with South China Morning Post | AP

Robert Pattinson talks wearing shorts in London during winter to be confused as an Aussie

 

The South China Morning Post | Associated Press spoke with Robert and the Safdie Bros during New York promo for Good Time.  Here’s an extract in relation to Robert. I love his comment about what to wear in London as a disguise – funny (and oh so true):

Robert Pattinson learned that the hard way when he bleached his famously coiffed mop to play the amoral Connie Nikas, a greasy New York thug who haphazardly robs a bank and tries to spring his brother out of prison in Good Time.

“It was pretty gross. I thought I was going to look a lot trendier than I did,” Pattinson laments. After months of alternating between a dyed black perm and a hydrogen peroxide-lightened hairdo, he says “your hair is no longer hair. It’s just strands of chemicals.”

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“I don’t ever watch a movie and think, ‘Oh, I can really sympathise with that guy.’ I don’t give a f***,” Pattinson laughs. “If someone’s not interesting, I just don’t care.”

Pattinson came to Queens, New York, two months before shooting started last year to get a feel for Connie’s world. He befriended ex-convicts and spoke to corrections officers in Manhattan prisons, where he would arrive in character and try to blend in.

He also method acted with Benny, exchanging fake prison correspondence and improvising scuffles at a local car wash and Dunkin’ Donuts. To his relief, no one recognised him.

“If someone sees two grown adults having a strange interaction with each other, people avoid it,” Pattinson says. The paparazzi and his rabid fans (known as “Twihards”) also were MIA: “There wasn’t a single cellphone picture of me the whole time. I was so concerned about that happening, because I loved [the idea] of the film world being blurred with reality and having people on the street react to you.”

He says that much of the unwanted attention from Twilight has subsided, thanks in part to his own crafty methods of flying under the radar.

“If you’re in London in the middle of winter, just wear shorts, Oakley sunglasses and a backwards baseball cap, and then everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just some Australian guy,’” Pattinson says. “I’ve learned different things in different cities.

“But maybe I’m just completely doing it for no reason and I’d be completely fine. The paranoia within myself has definitely died down a bit.”